Erik-Paul Gibson, CUA 199 Montecito Avenue, #206
Oakland, CA 94610
egibson@cytopia.com http://www.cytopia.com Phone: 510-206-0372
About
Experienced, flexible & dedicated User Interface Designer, Project Manager, Usability Analyst,
XHTML/CSS Developer & Web Standards Advocate.
Areas of Focus
Handcrafted standards compliant XHTML & CSS
Interactive prototyping with standards compliant XHTML, CSS & JavaScript frameworks
Presentation design & delivery
Project Management & Software Implementation
Usability Testing & User Research - Certified Usability Analyst (HFI)
User Interface Design & Interaction Design
Web Accessibility (Section 508 & W3C)
Work History
Consulting/Contracts/Short-term
Permanente Medical Group, Cloudshare, Valley View Wine Sales, PE International,
Quantcast, Chevron, Broadlane 2007 – Present
Oakland City Attorney, Robert Half International, FastFactory, Adept Technology, Pixera,
Spieker Properties, Fuji/Xerox, Macromedia, Adobe Systems 1995 – 2003
Employment
ICW Inc. 2008 – 2009
Lumetra 2003 – 2007
NetSchools/Plato Learning 2001 – 2002
Work.com (Excite@Home, Dow Jones) 2000 – 2001
Adept Technology 1999 – 2000
Cytopia Software 1995 – 2000
Adobe Systems 1991 – 1995
Career Highlights
Valley View Wine Sales
Title: Consultant Roles: User Interface Designer, Drupal Administrator
Designed internal ecommerce system, Web site & large wine catalog for wine importer.
Implemented Web site using Drupal & Ubercart for internal invoicing & content
management.
Wrote documentation for sales staff.
Trained Sales staff in system usage & invoice generation & content management.
PE Americas
Title: Consultant Roles: User Interface Designer
Created conceptual design for Web based bill of materials (BOM) sustainability report
generator.
Created conceptual design for Web based manufacturer sustainability catalog.
Developed wireframes & HTML/CSS/jQuery prototypes for two for sustainability
management Web applications.
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ICW Incorporated
Title: User Interface Designer/Usability Analyst Roles: User Interface Designer, XHMTL-CSS
Developer, Web Designer & Usability Analyst
Co-authored technical paper about best practices using Web portal applications in a
healthcare environment.
Designed interactive prototypes using the Liferay Open Source portal, XHTML, CSS &
jQuery.
Designed Web based presentations for trade shows.
Developed personas, wireframes, prototypes & performed usability tests for three
healthcare Web applications concepts.
Presented Web application designs to 17 customers in support of ICW sales staff.
Presented Web application designs to ICW executive management & technical architects.
Lumetra
Title: Webmaster Roles: Webmaster, Web Designer, Project Manager & Usability Analyst
Demonstrated Web applications for Lumetra Executive Management & CMS (Medicare)
Officials.
Designed Content Management System (CMS) based on Extron CMS 400.
Developed personas, wireframes, prototypes & performed usability tests for five internal &
external Web applications.
Managed & administered internal collaboration platform.
Managed three complete Web site redesign projects.
Trained editorial staff in CMS usage.
Trained medical & professional staff in usage of internal & external Web applications.
W3C Web Standards & Section 508 Accessibility advocate.
XHMTL & CSS development.
Netschools Corporaton/Plato Learning
Title: Webmaster/Project Manager Roles: Web Designer, Web Developer, Project Manager &
Usability Analyst
Designed & implemented Interwoven Teamsite Content Management System (CMS).
Trained editorial staff in CMS usage.
Usability testing for Netschools Orion K-12 Web based assessment system.
Work.com
Title: Webmaster Roles: Intranet Webmaster, Web Designer, Web Developer & Administrator
Designed & built internal Web applications for job ticketing & bug tracking using
Macromedia Dreamweaver, ASP & Microsoft SQL Server.
Designed & built nationwide corporate Intranet supporting all Work.com employees.
Adept Technology
Title: Manager, Electronic Marketing Systems Roles: Webmaster, Web Designer, User Interface
Designer Project Manager & Consultant
Consulted for Adept funded robotics exchange startup Fast Factory.
Created use case & workflows for Fast Factory Web based automation design system.
Built wireframes, HTML prototypes & Web designs for Fast Factory.
Project Manager & implementer for Adept customer relationship management (CRM)
based on Pivot Relationship.
Redesigned two Adept Web sites & Adept subsidiary SILMA Software Web site.
Trained Adept’s national sales staff.
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Cytopia Software Incorporated
Title: Owner/Founder Roles: User Interface Designer, Usability Analyst& Presenter
Consulted on custom software projects for many top Silicon Valley software companies,
including: Adobe, Macromedia, Fuji-Xerox, Pixera & Minolta.
Designed five commercial software products.
Designed, built & managed Cytopia.com, Cytopia’s corporate Web site.
Negotiated bundle agreements with Corel Corporation & Macromedia. Cytopia Software
was bundled & distributed with hundreds of thousands of copies of Corel Draw &
Macromedia Fireworks.
Presented & demonstrated Cytopia products to more than 50 User Groups & Industry
Conferences.
Wrote press release & software documentation for five Cytopia products.
Adobe Systems
Title: Senior Product Specialist Roles: Senior Technical Support Specialist, User Researcher,
Bug Tester, Product Team Member, Trainer, User Group & Conference Presenter
Beta tester & consultant through Adobe Illustrator 10.
Demonstrated Adobe products at more than 36 user group meeting, industry conferences
& trade shows.
Directly managed beta programs for Adobe Illustrator 5-6 & Adobe Dimensions 1-3.
Liaison to product marketing & engineering teams.
Product team member for Adobe Illustrator 3-6 & Adobe Dimensions 1-3.
Trained more than a dozen technical support representatives.
Worked directly with engineering team to solve customer issues & test product features
for Adobe Illustrator 3-6.
Worked with many of the industry’s top artists, designers & illustrators.
Education, Training, Certification & Industry Conferences
Web 2.0 Technology Conference, 2011
Voices That Matter Web Design Conference, 2010
UIE Web App Masters Tour – presented by Jared Spool, 2010
Human Factors International (HFI) PET Design Course (taught by HFI CEO Eric Schaffer),
2009
An Event Apart, 2008
Human Factors International – Certified Usability Analyst, 2006
University of California, Santa Cruz – Certificate in Program & Project Management, 2001
Professional Affiliations
ACM – ACM is the Association for Computing Machinery, a society for information
technology professionals with over 75,000 members worldwide.
SIGCHI – SIGCHI is an ACM Special Interest Group on Human-Computer Interaction, with
over 6,000 members worldwide.
BayCHI – BayCHI is the largest local ACM SIGCHI chapter in the world, with 1,200
members.
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